Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-05-29
DAILY HERALD.
THE CONTEST.
smportant Testimony for she
RebuttaI.

Wuuam 0ronmu IesthnhO"y
Rebuttai.
Al the hearing of testimony in the
contest yesterday morning the following
were examined in rebuttal; ID. }. Prieur
se.tified that he voted at the White
uo,se nrecinct on the last election day.
On that day he had conversation with
VIM. Heyman, who told him ne couia
m.ka ..uiece off the election" that Is
No could make 50 or So Heyman TOOK
him to see George Gard, who gave III"
!. folded ticket and 81 and told him 20 90
and vote that ticket. Witness took the
ticket and 50 and voted it. CARD toi-
aowad him and watched him wnile iu
s;ns unt;l he saw the ticket put IN 'ne
Iast.'+ hox Witness did not know
~ ,her the ticket was Democratic or
pannhi;can. He did not open the
ticket, he took it the way IL was % n"hueu soa
to him. He was mere ior
sale aud who ever posghs n."'
.couid use him. He sold his right TO vote,
INIT not his opinion. II he hau io'lowe1
his own opinion be would have voted
sor 7 d Lynch for Congressman. After
hs had voted he went into saloon
under the White House and some men
,oIS him he could make extra pay py
uIaviup dummy in the line. ,hey
offered to pay him for 1t, a COUPE oi
dollars. but he refused. lie aio no,
lnow who the parties were, and wouio
~. Lnow them if he saw them. he alu
NOT see any one engaged in employing
parties to act as dummies, ana none .su mnU
were acting as dummies told MN 'ney
we're. Witness knew Altimarano anu
Lsdbetter by sight. They were woIking
for the Republican ticket. Ihey asAea
Min, m vote the ticket they were WORK
inc for. They also asked him to go IN
the line as dummy, and offered to pay
him bnt he refused. He saw Altami'
rsno and Ledbetter putting men, as
Jnmmiea in line, but he did not know
their names. Joe Manning acted as one
of the dummies after he
had voted. 1t took nun
,scrtv.f;ve minutes to vote after ne mad
got in the line. ...... ho wo. AZ
the White House precinct during .he .
afternoon, and for a time counted lne M
number of votes cast in certain iengsn
Of time. At that time he MADE the sea'e'
,,ept that the voting was going on as
we'll as II could, but that was only Tor
ssv minutes. The rest of the time tie
yot;ng was behind that of the other pre-
r;rcts' witness attributed the delay 10
shs ;room netencv of the clerks and
iudges at that precinct. 1t had oeen
agreed to close the precincts at o'lo on
The afternoon of the election, because
the almanacs differed as to the time OF
sundown. He had counted iorty''hIse
in line when the polls closed at 'ne
White House. There would nave oeen
a large number more of voters IN iine'
but the men had been informed tnat Tue
polIs would close in twenty minutes,
As il was, 100 more votes couio
have been polled if it had mo-
been for the Incompetency OF the
election board. At noon the vot'
was l3o behind that OF Iurnvereii
precinct. and the total vote was aDou
300 behind that at the furnverein pre-
ciuct. In 1884 949 votes had been cast
at the White House, and in 1856, 7'S
At Boyle Heights 81 votes we're cast Il
nSs6. Judging from the votes counted
IL the other 200 had voted two.third
of that number would have been 10
I'D. Lynch and the Democratic ticker
The polls at the White House close
from is to 20 minutes earlier than q
auy other place in the city. he ma
protested, and the officers said the
knew how to tend to their own business
After that precinct closed he went t
the Court House and found the votln
still going on. He made the officer
CLOSE, and then went to the Turnvereil
precinct, which was just closing: 1
took him about Is minutes to go iron
the White House precinct to the Turn
verein. If the election board had beel
competent two votes would have been cas-
per minute, as had been the case at time
at the Turnverein precinct.
Adjourned until Tuesday morning a
10 o'clock.